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City Clerk Paul E. Healy took his 12th turn as presiding officer, introducing the participants and administering the oaths. "The only reason we have this ceremony is because they come up one at a time," he said jokingly. "Sometimes I wish we could swear them in all at once...
...fellas, any of you got any extra money to spare?" said Gary Hart sheepishly as he cupped his hands. "It seems that I'm a little short this week, again. But I swear that I've got a lot of dough coming my way. There are some friends of mine who owe me big money...
Guernica, a village of 10,000 souls, has a small munitions factory and barracks on its outskirts. Guernica is also the traditional capital of the Basques. To this town Spanish sovereigns, including Ferdinand & Isabella, went to swear by the stump of an ancient oak tree to protect the ancient privileges of the Basque people...
...also believe that only a fixed number of places are reserved for them in paradise. Upon death, therefore, every worthy Druze is said to be reborn as another Druze; for the same reason, converts are not accepted and intermarriage is not encouraged. The Druze neither drink nor smoke nor swear. They steadfastly observe complete submission to God, mutual support, repudiation of all other religions and strict truthfulness. Yet the faith remains eminently pragmatic: when abroad or in trouble, a Druze is permitted to dissemble to unbelievers and even to feign adherence to another belief...
Minnesota established the Lino Lakes program in 1979. About 30 sex offenders attend three group-therapy sessions a week, read books and articles dealing with their addictive behavior, and see movies showing the feelings of victims. Rapists must swear off hard-core pornography, which one psychologist describes as being "like a shot of whisky to an alcoholic." Since the program began in 1979, only four of 96 inmates completing it have been jailed again for sex crimes...